<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:58 AM, lists.md301 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists.md301@gmail.com" target="_blank">lists.md301@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>Anyone have any idea when an official portage Gentoo ebuild will appear?<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div>I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. MythTV has languished in portage for a while--I seem to recall it went over a year without an update, then a little flurry of action a few months ago, but it's still been pretty quiet.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Is it valid to copy an existing 0.26 ebuild, and modify it for the proper proper branch/hash to get 0.27-fixes? Of course that also requires manual edits (after checking) for any new dependencies/revisions.<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div>I would guess that would be a good start. There weren't any earthshaking changes from 0.26 to 0.27, so you should be able to add the few new dependencies.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div></div>(I bit the bullet yesterday, after examining the modifications necessary to make tmdb3 work with my 0.24-fixes master backend system, and cloned my root partition and slogged through my (very stale) portage refresh in a chroot. Painful, but not as bad as I thought. Most annoying part was circular dependencies resulting from changes in QT package ebuilds, from x11-libs to dev-qt, to make sure I had 4.8.) <br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understand why you and others get a system working and leave it alone (treat it like an appliance). However, I take the opposite approach with my Gentoo mythtv setup--I update daily. When I first set up my myth system almost 8 years ago it took me several weeks to get everything working (and I wasn't a linux noob either), so I figure daily updates let me deal with the breaking changes a little bit at a time instead of a lot of pain (and potential serious downtime) at once. If something stops working, I have a very good idea which update caused it and can focus my attention on that. I think that's a testament to Gentoo's approach--I've been able to keep my system up to date with the latest (mostly stable) packages and kernels over 8 years and never once had to reinstall. I did do a emerge --emptytree @world when I changed platforms from an amd64 to Sandy Bridge i3, but that just rebuilt everything in-place with minimal action required from me.<br>
<br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div></div></div>